Much has been written about the newly enacted electronic voting in condos. While it is received by many as a long-overdue solution to the proxy and quorum challenges faced by many corporations, some commentators have hesitated to adopt it, preferring to cling onto the requirement of a proxy to count someone’s presence toward quorum. In this post, I weigh into this debate and answer the ultimate question: what was the point of the province’s forward- thinking changes in accepting electronic voting if it continued to require physical presence or the traditional proxy form.
